North first minister Peter Robinson has lifted his threat to resign over thecontroversy about on-the-run republicans after accepting the terms of a judicial review into the issue announced by British prime minister David Cameron.

Australians were choosing between two relatively unknown, but divergent personalities in a tight election race today, pitting the country’s first female prime minister against her socially conservative challenger just two months after she took power.

THE political future of Iain Duncan Smith as leader of the conservative party may be decided today when the powerful 1922 Tory backbench committee orders him to face a vote of confidence.